CHICKEN ELECTIONS
Serbia, 2005, 48 Min, Video, Serbian, English & Hebrew Subtitles
 
Milna Millitz is an old Serbian woman living on a farm, growing chickens in a remote rural area. The days are election days, however, the village routine, just like in a Kusturica’s films, is hardly disturbed except for the one thing which Milna finds difficult to handle ‚the cellular telephone that her grandson, the local policeman, has brought her. Radovanovic has created a delicate bitter-sweet documentary comedy in the spirit of the humorous, musical and colorful characters and comic situations traditional to the dramatic Yugoslavian cinema. With no  arration or explanations the film depicts an ironic portrait of rural Serbia longing “for the good old days” while trying to cope with modernization. It is hardly surprising, therefore, and even symbolic that Melina dies at the moment she overcomes the hurdle of operating the cellular phone.
Director: Goran Radovanovic
Producer: Goran Radovanovic
Cinematography: Radoslav Vladic
Editor: Stevan Maric
Trailer: http://www.docmovies.com/He/docaviv25.html
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